![]() ![]() ![]() I find it easiest to work charts back and forth, from the bottom up, as you will see me do in the video.If you are applying a chart to a glove for example, you want to make sure the chart will end up centered on your hand height wise and width wise, so be sure to try the glove on to determine which stitch you would need to start on for the chart to end up centered. Count how many stitches tall and wide the chart is (this heart is 5 by 5 for example), then mark where you would like your chart to be positioned on your knitted item.Here are a few tips that will help you when using this technique: In the video you will notice I cut out me doing Row 4 of the chart (it got kinda boring, lol), but hopefully you caught on at the point □ Again, the basic concept to duplicate a stitch is that you come through the stitch below the one you’re duplicating from back to front, back and around the stitch above the one you’re duplicating, then back through the stitch below from the front to the back of your knitting. You will need to thread your needle with approximately 26 inches of yarn to make this heart. ![]() Here is a video of me below showing how to do the technique, and below that you will find the heart chart I use in the video: I find this technique to be a little easier than performing colorwork as you knit an item like with fair isle, intarsia, and stranded knitting, as it does not require you to manage multiple balls of yarn while you’re knitting. With duplicate stitch, all you will need to add a color chart to your knitting is a tapestry needle and some yarn. My stitches looked better if I started at the bottom of my design and worked each row instead of working up and down in columns.2013 How to do Duplicate Stitch Tutorial with Free Heart Chartĭuplicate stitch is awesome and I am so happy to share it with you today! Duplicate stitch is a wonderful and easy way to add colorwork to your knitting, and is performed after you have knitted an item. Tip #2: work back and forth in rows if possible. Coming up at the bottom of the V on the next row means I’m working at the top of a V I’ve already covered Keep working stitches this way: up through the point, around the top, then back down through the point Now follow your design! To work the next stitch, move to the next V you want to cover and begin again at the bottom point. Duplicate stitch made! You’ve successfully covered the stitch on your knit item with a new color. Pull your yarn through (snug, not tight!). Insert your needle back through the point of the V ![]() Now go back to where you started and insert the needle in the bottom point of the V again, this time from the front. Pull the yarn through so it rests on top of the stitch you are covering Pull the yarn through so that it’s snug over the stitch you’re tracing (hello duplicate stitch!), but not tight enough to distort the stitches. Go behind the bottom of the stitch above to create the top of your V Insert your needle behind that next V just like your stitch does and come out on the other side (I’m left handed, so I’m following the left leg of the V and going from left to right with my needle– feel free to go opposite if it feels more natural). Next, follow one leg of the V up to where it runs into the stitch above it. Pull your yarn through, leaving a 4-6″ tail to sew in later. See how it’s made up of a ton of V’s? Thread your needle and starting from the back, bring your needle up through the bottom of one of the V’s. To start, take a look at your knitted piece. After only a few stitches, your yarn starts to look less than fresh and that means your hard work can’t shine like it should. If you’re like me, you want as few ends to sew in as possible so you’ll think, yeah, let’s use a long enough piece to do all the stitches. Tip #1: only use a 18-24″ piece of yarn to stitch with at a time. Contrasting yarn that is similar in weight as your knitted piece or even bigger (just don’t use smaller yarn because it won’t cover the stitches you’re tracing).A knitted something (could even be a ready-to-wear piece!).You start by knitting your base piece (hat, sweater, bag, whatever it may be) and then add colored stitches on top of your knitting. I’m getting better at knitting with multiple colors, but then I had an idea to make a baby hat with a single rainbow design, and that wasn’t going to work well with regular stranded knitting.Įnter duplicate stitching. Let’s move on to something else! I’ve been seeing the duplicate stitch around and got excited about the color possibilities it opened up in my knitting. So it’s been quite the month (or two), but you already knew that. Duplicate stitch can be used to add a design to your knitting ![]()
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